<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Randy and All,<div><br></div><div>Great find! Pyrrhuloxia is not a strongly migratory species, but it is not sedentary and does wander some. I think there are records of long-distance vagrants, but to be sure I just posted a question about its vagrancy pattern to the North American Bird Distribution e-mail list (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/NABirdDist">http://groups.google.com/group/NABirdDist).</a></div><div><br></div><div>Randy or other visiting birders — please scatter seed in publicly accessible brush piles! Safflower and sunflower seed would be best. I'll be arriving in Corvallis in a week from tonight, and it would fun if the bird were still around.</div><div><br></div><div>Good Birding,</div><div><br></div><div>Rich<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>Rich Hoyer</div><div>Tucson, Arizona</div><div><br></div><div>Senior Leader for WINGS</div><div><a href="http://wingsbirds.com">http://wingsbirds.com</a></div><div>---</div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:39 AM, M &amp; R Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have a Pyrrhuloxia behind my house right now (10 am, Wed.)&nbsp; My house is in Peoria.&nbsp; Peoria is about ten miles south of Corvallis, east of the Willamette River, on Peoria Road.&nbsp;&nbsp;It shows up in the DeLorme Atlas, p. 47 A7.&nbsp; The old church is the most obvious landmark for this missable little town.&nbsp; Our house is&nbsp;29756 Main Street, beside the river.&nbsp; It's bluegray with a junky front porch.&nbsp; We also own the little yellow Victorian place immediately to the south.&nbsp; If you want to hunt for this bird, park in front of the white shop&nbsp;between the two houses.&nbsp; No need to knock.&nbsp; The bird was hopping around among the ground feeders behind&nbsp;the blue&nbsp;house, and you are welcome to walk down the little road to look around, or head down to the river.&nbsp; (Warning: the owner of these properties has been described as an unpredictable rat-bastard, but I've always found him reasonable.)</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Oh, by the way, the Pyrr looks like a female, with only a hint of red on the crest, beside the eye, on the primaries, I think, and on the outer tail feathers.&nbsp; The bill is rounded and pale yellowish.&nbsp; I took some pictures which I will pass&nbsp;on sometime.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is a Black Phoebe in town, too, and probably some other good birds that I haven't seen.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Randy Campbell</font></div>_______________________________________________<br>obol mailing list<br><a href="mailto:obol@oregonbirdwatch.org">obol@oregonbirdwatch.org</a><br><a href="http://oregonbirdwatch.org/mailman/listinfo/obol">http://oregonbirdwatch.org/mailman/listinfo/obol</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>